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From Chat-with-PDF to Quiz-Master

Talkat PyData London 2026 · on Sunday, 2026-06-07· at 15:30· Doddington Forum· [ai-assisted-development]
name:Adam Hill
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Builds a stateful Python app that converts a 130-page PDF into auto-generated multiple-choice and free-text questions using Docling for layout and tables, DeepEval for synthetic QA and distractors, and Marimo for the UI, then grades answers in real time with an LLM-as-judge pipeline. It anchors each QA pair to source coordinates for auditability, handles tables/figures, ran locally with cached models (demo mostly works), notes OCR noise pitfalls and low demo cost (≈$3).

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 3:57Unverified RAG answers problem
  3. 9:13Processing PDFs to text
  4. 12:25Semantic chunking with Dockling
  5. 16:19Generating trustworthy questions
  6. 20:33Deterministic RAG systems
  7. 22:19OCR noise and sanitization
  8. 24:30Grading free-text answers
  9. 28:19Reactive UI with Marimo
  10. 31:28Live demo: Quiz-Master
  11. 37:16Key takeaways
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